Junior Clinical Fellow in Adult Critical Care

Job overview

The Critical Care Directorate of Cardiff and Vale UHB has a national and international reputation as a progressive department, particularly in the fields of clinical research, organisation and management innovation, and technical innovation. The Directorate played an important role in advising and assisting the Audit Commission in the review of UK-wide critical care provision, and the Welsh Assembly Government in the development of standards for critical care in Wales. Long established in the forefront of high dependency care development, we were among the first to develop combined Level 2 and 3 facilities.

The Directorate management team (DMT) consists of the Clinical Director, Lead Clinicians, Directorate Manager, Service Manager, Assistant Directorate Manager, Directorate Nurse, and Senior Nurse.

Applications are invited for a Junior Clinical Fellow in Adult Critical Care at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board based at the University Hospital of Wales.

The post will be available from August 2026.

Main duties of the job

The major part of training & service consists of assisting in the day to day management of patients within the Critical Care areas, resuscitation, establishing and performing cardiovascular and respiratory (and other organ system) monitoring and support, prescribing drugs and nutrition on a daily basis and keeping regular medical notes on up to 32 ICU patients. The post holder will be expected to perform procedures (under the appropriate level of supervision) The post holder will spend a proportion of their day time duties providing day to day clinical management in the Post Anaesthetic Care Unit (PACU), in consultation with the various medical and surgical teams. The post offers unrivalled experience for any doctor who wishes to gain familiarity with intensive care and the post-operative management of major surgical problems, i.e. ideal for physicians, surgeons and anaesthetists. The post also offers exposure to HFOV, critical care echocardiography and critical care ultrasound. The post holder will be expected to provide support to more junior team members (F1doctors and medical students) and supervise as well as teach those more junior trainees within the directorate

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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